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Presidential election-year politics could come in play in Fitzgerald replacement process
Picking a successor to Patrick Fitzgerald as Chicago's top federal prosecutor is fraught with difficulties, from finding a lawyer with zeal and talent to take on public corruption to trying to keep any choice from becoming embroiled in presidential...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Richard M. Daley, George Ryan, Republican Party, Executive Branch
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Egyptians vote in first free presidential election
CAIRO (AP) — More than 15 months after autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyptians streamed to polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for the first time in generations. Waiting hours in line, some debated to the last...
Tags: Cancer, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Parliament
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News briefs for Wednesday, May 23
Egyptians vote in presidential election to rid nation of decades of dictatorship CAIRO (AP) — Determined to end decades of authoritarian rule, millions of Egyptians waited patiently in long lines outside polling stations across the nation on...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Death Penalty, Entertainment Events, Political Candidates, Iran's Nuclear Program
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Right call in political ads ruling
It won't ake vitriolic political attack ads any more palatable, but a welcome step toward transparency became possible last week thanks to a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in favor of disclosure.
In a 2-1 decision, the judges declined to block a lower...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Elections, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Trials
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Appeals court upholds Florida's 'electioneering' law
TALLAHASSEE -- A federal appeals court Thursday quickly rejected a constitutional challenge to a 2010 Florida election law regulating some outside groups that run political ads or send mailers. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of...Tags: Gainesville, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage
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Election decision may force disclosure of secret donors
WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars to influence the 2012 election now face the prospect of having to reveal their secret donors, after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower-court order requiring the...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Charity, Finance, Voting
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Court ruling may force advocacy groups to disclose secret donors
WASHINGTON -- Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars in the 2012 campaign are now faced with the prospect of having to reveal the donors who have been secretly financing their efforts after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Charity, Finance, Voting
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Tom Firey: Debunking the myth of the Citizens United monster
In January 2008, a political activist group called Citizens United released “Hillary: The Movie.” The documentary sharply criticized Hillary Clinton, who was then a U.S. senator and candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential...Tags: Civil Rights, Human Interest, Justice and Rights, Human Rights, Movies
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France's Francois Hollande changes the mix in Europe
PARIS — With Francois Hollande's election as France's first Socialist president in 17 years, Europe now must deal with a major leader who has promised to push a different approach to resolving the continent's debt crisis. Hollande's message, that...Tags: Politics, Camp David, Paris (France), Nicolas Sarkozy, Finance
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Rep. Wasserman Schultz is GOP's No. 2 target
Ozzie deFaria has divined the secret to satisfying the deepest fantasies of South Florida Republican activists – predicting post-Election Day headlines that report the defeats of President Barack Obama and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Miami International Airport Fire (2011), Alex Sink, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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West wrong on economy
When Allen West is not hunting communists he is arguing for the same tired, old, unproven economic theory: trickle-down economics. He argues that if we lower taxes on the rich, the benefits will trickle down on all of us like a shower from heaven....Tags: Boca Raton, Gun Control, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Health
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Weary Warriors Favor Obama
ReutersCOLUMBIA, S.C.(Reuters) - Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours...Tags: Parties and Movements, International Military Interventions, Behavioral Conditions, Health, Chicago
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